ReviewThe FEBS journal2024
Neuromodulation and the toolkit for behavioural evolution: can ecdysis shed light on an old problem?
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- Phase-Resolved Pupal Ecdysis Behavior and Requirement of Ecdysis-Triggering Hormone in Henosepilachna vigintioctomaculata.Archives of insect biochemistry and physiology · 2026Article
- High-resolution single-cell analyses reveal evolutionary constraints and evolvability of sexual circuits inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Characterization of eclosion hormone receptor function reveals differential hormonal control of ecdysis during Drosophila development.PLoS genetics · 2025Article
- Evolution of neural circuits in the origin of behavioral novelty.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2025Article
- Characterization Eclosion Hormone Receptor function reveals differential hormonal control of ecdysis duringbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Phylogenetic and transcriptomic characterization of insulin and growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases in crustaceans.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
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Abstract
The geneticist Thomas Dobzhansky famously declared: 'Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution'. A key evolutionary adaptation of Metazoa is directed movement, which has been elaborated into a spectacularly varied number of behaviours in animal clades. The mechanisms by which animal behaviours have evolved, however, remain unresolved. This is due, in part, to the indirect control of behaviour by the genome, which provides the components for both building and operating the brain circuits that generate behaviour. These brain circuits are adapted to respond flexibly to environmental contingencies and physiological needs and can change as a function of experience. The resulting plasticity of behavioural expression makes it difficult to characterize homologous elements of behaviour and to track their evolution. Here, we evaluate progress in identifying the genetic substrates of behavioural evolution and suggest that examining adaptive changes in neuromodulatory signalling may be a particularly productive focus for future studies. We propose that the behavioural sequences used by ecdysozoans to moult are an attractive model for studying the role of neuromodulation in behavioural evolution.
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